The Authentic Valmiki Ramayana

Exchange of hot words between Lakshmana and Indrajit, followed by a fierce fight.Recitation: 00:00 - 12:38Translation: 12:40 - 29:03

Exchange of hot words between Indrajit and Vibhishana.Recitation: 00:00 - 05:12Translation: 05:14 - 12:22

In the course of an encounter of the monkeys with the ogres, Hanuman plays havoc among the hostile army and challenges Indrajit to a duel and Lakshmana catches sight of the ogre.Recitation: 00:00 - 05:50Translation: 05:53 - 13:37

Importuned by Vibhishana, Sri Rama commands Lakshmana to march against Indrajit to make short work of him, and Lakshmana arrives with an army near the sanctuary of Nikumbhila.Recitation: 00:00 - 06:05Translation: 06:07 - 15:06

Telling Sri Rama the secret of the conjuring trick practised by Indrajit, Vibhishana assures him of Sita being still alive and urges him to send Lakshmana with an army to the sanctuary of Nikumbhila.Recitation: 00:00 - 04:05Translation: 04:10 - 10:33

Sri Rama faints away on being told that Sita has been done to death. After consoling him, Lakshmana prepares for action.Recitation: 00:00 - 07:22Translation: 07:25 - 19:40

Led by Hanuman, the monkeys meet the ogres in an encounter; Hanuman returns to the presence of Sri Rama and Indrajit pours oblations into the sacred fire at the sanctuary of Nikumbhila.Recitation : 00:00 - 04:48Translation: 04:52 - 11:05

Indrajit kills an illusory living image of Sita.Recitation: 00:00 - 06:02Translation: 06:06 - 14:10

Indrajit puts up a formidable fight under orders of Ravana and Sri Rama and Lakshmana discuss the ways and means of putting an end to him.Recitation: 00:00 - 07:10Translation: 07:11 - 17:59

Death of Makaraaksha at the hands of Sri Rama.Recitation: 00:00 - 07:05Translation: 07:08 - 16:32

Makaraaksha sets out for an encounter under orders of Ravana.Recitation: 00:00 - 03:48Translation: 03:50 - 08:40

Nikumbha's death at the hands of Hanuman.Recitation: 00:00 - 04:15Translation: 04:18 - 10:05

Death of Kampana and Prajangha at the hands of Angada, of Shonitaksha at the hands of Dvivida, of Yoopaksha at the hands of Mainda and Kumbha at the hands of Sugriva.Recitation:00:00 - 15:13Translation: 15:16 - 36:05

Lanka is set fire to by the monkeys, on which a terrible conflict ensues between the ogres and the monkeys.Recitation: 00:00 - 11:38Translation:11:41 - 26:36

Under instructions from Jambavan, the lord of bears, Hanuman fetched a hillock covered with celestial herbs; and inhaling the odour of those herbs, Sri Rama, Lakshmana and all the monkeys regained their normal health.Recitation: 00:00 - 13:59Translation: 14:02 - 34:22

A missile presided over by Brahma and shot by Indrajit renders Sri Rama and Lakshmana as well as the whole army of monkeys unconscious.Recitation: 00:00 - 13:32Translation: 13:34 - 33:00

Ravana feels anxious for the safety of Lanka and enjoins the ogres to guard the city jealously.Recitation: 00:00 - 03:25Translation: 03:28 - 08:20

Atikaaya puts up a fierce fight and is killed by Lakshmana.Recitation: 00:00 - 19:20Translation: 19:23 - 46:28

Death of Devantaka and Trishira at the hands of Hanuman, of Mahodara at the hands of Nila and of Mahaparshva at the hands of Rshabha.Recitation: 00:00 - 11:38Translation: 11:42 - 27:49

Ravana's sons and brothers sally forth for an encounter and Narantaka meets with his death at the hands of Angada.Recitation: 00:00 - 16:37Translation: 16:40 - 38:41

Ravana's lament over Kumbhakarna's fall.Recitation: 00:00 - 04:14Translation: 04:16 - 10:00

Kumbhakarna's terrible encounter with Sri Rama and death at his hands.Recitation: 00:00 - 32:06Translation: 32:10 - 01:15:30

Angada reassures and rallies the monkeys scared away by Kumbhakarna; their carnage at the hands of Kumbhakarna puts them to flight again and Angada restores them to confidence once more.Recitation: 00:00 - 05:55Translation: 05:59 - 13:35

Kumbhakarna's sally for an encounter.Recitation: 00:00 - 09:48Rranalation: 09:52 - 22:48

Mahodara twits Kumbhakarna and suggests to Ravana a device to achieve his end without a struggle.Recitation: 00:00 - 06:12Translation: 06:15 - 15:37

Kumbhakarna twits Ravana for all his misdeeds and reassuring him, shows his determination for a conflict.Recitation: 00:00 - 09:44Translation: 09:47 - 23:51

Kumbhakarna enters the palace of Ravana, who warns him of the danger from Sri Rama and urges him to destroy the enemy's army.Recitation: 00:00 - 04:13Translation: 04:16 - 09:56

Vibhishana acquaints Sri Rama with Kumbhakarna and the monkeys take up their position firmly at the gates of Lanka for an encounter under orders of Sri Rama.Recitation: 00:00 - 07:06Translation: 07:09 - 16:07

The slumbering Kumbhakarna is roused by the ogres under orders of their king, who felt disconsolate at his own defeat, and the monkeys get alarmed to see the former.Recitation: 00:00 - 16:52Translation: 16:54 - 39:42

Disconsolate at the death of Prahasta, Ravana himself appears on the battlefield for an encounter. After a tough fight with Sugriva, Lakshmana, Hanuman and Nila, Ravana meets Sri Rama and, sustaining an ignominious defeat at the latter's hands and escaping with his life, withdraws to Lanka.Recitation: 00:00 - 27:33Translation: 27:36 - 01:05:56

Nila kills Prahasta.Recitation: 00:00 - 09:58Translation: 10:00 - 22:38

Under orders of Ravana, Prahasta sallies forth with a large army for the battlefield.Recitation: 00:00 - 07:37Translation: 07:43 - 18:03

Hanuman kills Akampana.Recitation: 00:00 - 06:37Translation: 06:40 - 14:55

Akampana and other ogres appear on the field of battle under orders of Ravana and wage a deadly conflict with the monkeys.Recitation: 00:00 - 05:25Translation: 05:29 - 12:03

An encounter between Vajradamshtra and Angada, who kills the former.Recitation: 00:00 - 06:23Translation: 06:27 - 14:10

The monkeys' tough fight with the ogre Vajradamshtra dispatched by Ravana, who is provoked by the death of Dhumraaksha.Recitation: 00:00 - 05:36Translation: 05:40 - 12:25

Dhumraaksha fights and is killed by Hanuman.Recitation: 00:00 - 06:49Translation: 06:53 - 15:01

Hearing the tumultuous rise of the monkeys, the servants of Ravana, detailed for the purpose, report to him how the two scions of Raghu were freed from the bondage of arrows. Depressed by this news, Ravana dispatches Dhumraaksha to dispose of Sri Rama. Though perturbed at the sight of evil portents, yet unwilling to retrace his steps on any account, Dhumraaksha surveys the army of the monkeys.Recitation: 00:00 - 06:26Translation: 06:31 - 14:56

Beholding Vibhishana, Sugriva asks Jambavan to restore the fleeing monkeys to confidence and himself reassures Vibhishana. In the meantime, Garuda, the king of birds, makes his appearance on the scene and liberates Sri Rama and Lakshmana from their bondage.Recitation: 00:00 - 10:50Translation: 10:55 - 26:00

Returning to consciousness Sri Rama wails over the lot of Lakshmana and the monkeys too fall a prey to extreme despondency on seeing Sri Rama wailing as aforesaid. Seeing Vibhishana approach Sri Rama in the meantime, they all take to their heels, mistaking him for Indrajit.Recitation: 00:00 - 05:36Translation: 05:40 - 13:10

"Those well-versed in physiognomy and palmistry prophesied that I would never be widowed and would bear sons. How could their predictions prove untrue?" While Sita was absorbed in these thoughts on beholding Sri Rama and Lakshmana, Trijata reassures her on the strength of good omens and, cheering her soul, takes her back to the Ashoka grove.Recitation: 00;00 - 06:20Translation: 06:24 - 16:00

Indrajit having re-entered Lanka, Hanuman and other monkeys encompass Sri Rama and Lakshmana and guard their bodies. Having dismissed Indrajit, Ravana commands the ogresses guarding Sita to take her to the field of battle and show her the plight of Sri Rama and Lakshmana. The ogresses, headed by Trijata, accordingly take her in the aerial car, known by the name of Pushpaka, and show her the two princes lying unconscious and motionless on the ground. Sita bursts into a piteous wail on seeing her husband and brother-in-law in that plight.Recitation: 00:00 - 04:20Translation: 04:24 - 09:55

Though itching to kill the enemy on beholding Sri Rama and Lakshmana enmeshed in a network of snakes, the monkeys, who were unable to perceive him, felt frustrated. Vibhishana exhorts Sugriva, who was seized with fear on finding Indrajit hidden under the cloak of witchcraft, to take heart and not to give way to fear. Concluding the two brothers to be dead, Indrajit, for his part, triumphantly enters Lanka and is welcomed by his father.Recitation: 00:00 - 08:10Translation: 08:15 - 19:12

Distressed to perceive the two scions of Raghu bound by Indrajit in a network of arrows and pierced with other fierce arrows, the monkeys give way to utter despondency.Recitation: 00:00 - 04:45Translation: 04:47 - 12:30

During the nocturnal engagement the monkeys too dauntlessly offer a stiff fight to the ogres even though they were fighting against heavy odds inasmuch as the strength of ogres gets doubled at night, and felt highly rejoiced to find Indrajit vanquished by Angada. Sri Rama and Lakshmana too put to flight numberless foes with their shower of arrows. Eventually, however, they are both bound by Indrajit in a noose of serpents.Recitation: 00:00 - 06:38Translation: 06:40 - 16:32

In the course of duels the ogres and the monkeys, in which Angada closes with Indrajit, the heads of Durdharsha, Mitraghna, Agniketu and Yagnakopana are lopped off by Sri Rama and that of Nikumbha by Nila and, killed by Susanna, Vidyunmali drops down dead.Recitation: 00:00 - 07:39Translation: 07:45 - 17:52

Approaching Ravana, the ogres break to him the news about Lanka having been laid siege to by the monkeys led by Sri Rama. Ascending the roof of his palace and taxing his brain about the means of putting an end to the monkeys, he casts a look at Sri Rama and the monkeys. Pained at the thought that Sita was being bullied by Ravana on his account, and commanding the monkeys to besiege all the four gates of Lanka and to destroy the ogres, Sri Rama, on the other side, takes up his position along with Lakshmana near the northern gate. Apprised of these developments, Ravana mobilises his army and, encouraged by him, the ogres beat their drums and emit a terrible roar.Recitation: 00:00 - 08:05Translation: 08:08 - 18:59

Sri Rama is not very pleased with the daring act of Sugriva inasmuch as he had seen evil portents. Warning him against such action on the ground of his being a sovereign, and commanding the monkey generals to besiege all the four gates of Lanka, he dispatches Angada to expostulate with Ravana and bring him to reason. Angada tries his best to bring him round, but in vain, and returns unsuccessful to the presence of Sri Rama after threatening the ogres.Recitation: 00:00 - 16:20Translation: 16:25 - 39:06

Ascending the highest peak of the Suvela mountain along with a division of his army, Sri Rama catches sight of Ravana perched on the top of a gate of his palace. Infuriated at his very sight, Sugriva springs upon him by surprise from the mountain-top, throws down the diadem from his head, struggles with him for a long time and, eluding him, returns victorious to the presence of Sri Rama.Recitation: 00:00 - 05:54Translation: 05:59 - 14:57

Having passed the night on the summit of the Suvela mountain, the commanders of the simian troops entered the parks and gardens in the outskirts of Lanka, which were laden with blossom etc., while others make their way into Lanka itself. Sri Rama, however, feels amazed to behold from the mountain-top Lanka, which was charming in every respect.Recitation: 00:00 - 05:10Translation: 05:15 - 11:50

Climbing up the Suvela mountain in consultation with and in the company of Lakshmana and Vibhishana as well as of Sugriva and others, Sri Rama surveys the city from that vantage-ground. The eminent heroes among the monkeys too, who were eager to fight, roar at the top of their voice and spend the night on the mountain itself with Sri Rama.Recitation: 00:00 - 03:30Translation: 03:32 - 08:25